On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Natacha Porté <nata...@instinctive.eu> wrote: >> >> If you don't mind, I'd rather have it not named at all. >> >> Due to how it's (still) heavily loaded with negative emotions, I would >> like not having to interact with the original project or its repository. >> And a name change at this level does involve quite a lot of interaction. > > In the open source community, people frequently start forks of other > projects and develop them independantly under new names. A recent > example of a high profile project is LibreOffice, which is a fork of > OpenOffice. > > Thank you for your good work. And sorry that you got caught up in this > controversy. You are in good company. History has many people who > created great works that had unfortunate names. (I decline to name any > as that is potentially another debate.)
I also would like to thank Natacha for her great contribution and hope that as time goes by she might revisit her relationship with the original project. Unfortunately, human reaction to certain things like project naming could be unpredictable and sometimes destructive. Hopefully all the involved can get over it. --Leo-- _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
